1. In examining Nils Orvik Defence Against Help: ‘A Strategy of Small States’, is this strategy relevant for contemporary Canadian Foreign Defence decision-making? Compare Orvik’s analysis of the relationship between Nordic states and the Soviet Union to the modern Canadian and US relationship.
2. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis, and describe the dynamic between Diefenbaker and Kennedy?
3. What does it mean for Canadian foreign policy to be considered functional? Provide an example of when Canada displayed an adherence to functionalism and a time when it did not.
4. Choose one of the Prime Ministers covered in the course (Pierre Trudaeu) and describe their outlook on foreign policy and Canadian interests and values
5. How did Canada shift from being a close ally to the UK to the US during the Cold War?
6. What is a “middle power”? Is “middle power” a useful concept?
7. Is Canada a middle power? Why or why not, using an example.
9. What does it mean to have a foreign policy “in the middle” between too idealist and too Realist. Provide an example.
10. Describe your favourite defence policy and why?
11. Describe Canada’s role on the UNSC for a time between 1948 and 1980s. What were the issues it wrestled with, how and what did Canada “bring” to the UNSC table?
Read the 3 papers below for the questions, you should be able to answer them and do not just use google or general knowledge to answer them
1. 1964 White Paper on Defence
http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/dn-nd/D3-6-1964-eng.pdf
Ignore, completely Section IV. Section V is very important. Skim the others. (II on the history and background is very useful.)
2. 1971 White Paper on Defence
http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/dn-nd/D3-6-1971-eng.pdf
(Ignore “The Defence Department” pg. 41 onward for the 1970 white paper)
3. 1984 https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/dn-nd/D2-73-1987-eng.pd
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